Seems that prodigy hd2 which is envy24ht chip-based is not supported. I think that *maybe* oss4 detects wrong bit output (32bit instead of 24 or 16). I know for sure that envy24ht chips are 24bits max.

One more thing: when I change envy24ht_model in oss_envy24ht.conf to 1 or 0 the card isn't even detected!

When I try to play anything (in this case osstest) I get this msg from dmesg:

My case seems similar with this one. I have Onkyo SE-90 card and it doesn't work on OSS. I've tried using OSS4 on Ubuntu and no luck. Then today i tried it on ArchLinux LiveCD followng igorzwx recommendation.

NOTICE! You don't have any audio devices available. It looks like your audio hardware was not recognized by OSS.

If you have installed OSS just a moment ago then it may be necessary to. to rebot the system before trying to use the device(s).

ALSA works on this card but with poor sound quality and not to mention the crackling and stutter.Any help would be appreciated I'm new on linux. Maybe i should stick with FreeBSD if this card cant work on linux

wolep wrote:My case seems similar with this one. I have Onkyo SE-90 card and it doesn't work on OSS. I've tried using OSS4 on Ubuntu and no luck. Then today i tried it on ArchLinux LiveCD followng igorzwx recommendation.

ALSA works on this card but with poor sound quality and not to mention the crackling and stutter.Any help would be appreciated I'm new on linux. Maybe i should stick with FreeBSD if this card cant work on linux

------------------------------------------------------------- Open Sound System was installed. Now you should add 'oss' to your DAEMONS variable at /etc/rc.conf, and start the daemon by running /etc/rc.d/oss start.

Note that OSS can't currently work together with kernel ALSA modules, so they were moved out by the OSS install scripts. If you want the ALSA kernel modules back, you can just remove this package using pacman.

Please note that OSS stores some of its configuration files at /usr/lib/oss. If you are upgrading from an older OSS release and it doesn't work properly, try removing that directory and reinstall this package.-------------------------------------------------------------Optional dependencies for oss gtk2: for graphical mixer (ossxmix) hal: for automatic USB audio configuration[root@archiso oss]#

--------------------------------------------------------EDIT: Ubuntu/Debian packages can be easily re-packed into Arch Linux packages (without recompilation). An example of PKGBUILD is in the Attachment